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Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School (HLS) Boskey Professor of Law and the first black woman tenured at HLS, urged blacks in the audience to “take control of your environment” and to confront issues such as the lack of a constitutional provision—as opposed to just an amendment—that grants all citizens the right to vote...
...first-years to be aware of the “potential dangers that have been reported in regard to finals clubs.” Harvard knows but has not made public where rape occurs on campus, and offers vague warnings as their form of prevention, while they refuse to confront the reality of oppression at the College. Opening the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) because of pressure from student activists does not compensate for the fact that the university enables a structurally unequal environment that fosters sexism and facilitates sexual assault...
More than two-thirds of all mergers fail. Yet companies rarely grow without deals. How does a CEO confront this conundrum? David Harding and Sam Rovit, veteran management consultants at Bain & Co., walk readers through the daunting world of M&A inMastering the Merger: Four Critical Decisions That Make or Break the Deal (Harvard Business School Press). Through detailed case studies, the pair show that the more successful acquirers, like Clear Channel, tend to thrive through many small deals rather than the big one. The bottom line: no matter how far along you are in the process, always...
While Tehran's unprecedented "endorsement" of President Bush raised some eyebrows this week, Iran hasn?t been much of an issue in the Presidential campaign. But as international efforts to confront the Islamic Republic's nuclear program enter a critical phase, there's little doubt Iran will be at the top of a new administration's agenda. And as the exchange between President Bush and Senator Kerry in the first presidential debate showed, there are not many good options...
...news to come in Iraq and quite possibly on the domestic economy. They are open to the idea of replacing Bush, but not with a politician who shares the President's most basic flaw--a cynical underappreciation of the public's ability to sacrifice, hunker down and directly confront what has suddenly become a very difficult world...